MIXING COLORS WITH CORN SYRUP AND FOOD COLORING

Students will learn to mix colors with unique art materials - corn syrup and food coloring.

What You Need:

Corn Syrup

Food Coloring (red, yellow and blue)

Paper plates or thick paper

What You Do:

Mix each of the food coloring colors with the corn syrup so you have three corn syrup colors (red, yellow and blue).

Use your fingers (or brushes, or Q-Tips, etc.) to paint on the paper plate or paper with the corn syrup.

Mix different colors to create new colors (yellow and blue make green; red and blue make purple; yellow and red make orange).

Write down which colors created the new colors when mixed together.

Let dry and hang to display.

Recommended Books/Products:

My Very Favorite Art Book: I Love to Paint!Creating with strings, fingers, rollers, straws, and other super techniques: no wonder this entry in Lark's fabulous new art series will have kids saying "I love to paint!"

Painting with ChildrenPainting with Children contains sections on the "moral effects of color," the experience of colors, preparation, color stories and poems, panting with plant colors, painting the moods and seasons of nature, and much more.

The Science Book of Color
by Neil Ardley
This book explains the principles of color and gives instructions for a variety of simple experiments.

My First Paint Book
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